Updates for Dawn!

10/15/2015

No specific release date yet, so don't get too excited.

Just thought I'd update you as best I can, since the book is taking so much longer than I'd thought. As I promised in my last post (or the post before last?), I will definitely have all the writing and editing I can do finished before I leave for Germany in two weeks. So I'm still on track for that.

That means the release will be shortly after that, depending on how quickly formatting, uploading, etc. takes.

That's as close as I can predict it. These parallel novels get harder to write as I go along, because I have to make sure that every flashback and current story doesn't contradict anything I've said before, and also brings something unique and interesting to the table. It's a singular challenge, but I'm enjoying it! Restriction breeds creativity!

As a side note, the flashback storyline almost took up most of the book this time. I was doing backstory for basically the entire crew of The Testament, and if I had continued according to my original outline, literally 100% of the book would have been taken up by backstory. I trimmed quite a bit, but there's still a lot going on in those chapters this time. So look forward to it!

-Willl

9 Comments

10/15/2015 03:02:17 pm

Throw it all in there, Will. Don't care if it's 1,000 pages because these books are great. Just finished Shera's tale and can't wait for Calder's side of the story. Have fun in Germany and keep up the great work.

Bryant

10/20/2015 04:56:45 pm

I have to strongly agree here. Keep it all! We love it. The more we have to read the better!

I.C. Weiner

10/15/2015 03:20:02 pm

So, I am curious. How often do you find yourself about to contradict something you've already written? Also, are you planning any Easter eggs from travelers gate trilogy hidden in the book?

And Finally (spoiler alert for Darkness and dawn and City of Light)

Stop killing my favorite Characters!!! First Kai, then Lucan???? You sir are an evil mastermind.

JohnW

10/15/2015 04:14:16 pm

I'm not convinced Lucan is completely dead. It seems like some part of him may still be around.

April

10/15/2015 10:42:15 pm

Does this mean we will get deleted scenes?

And the Will may have said that the dead will stay dead, but the Will can be duplicitous. I am not convinced that Lucan is dead. If he is dead then leave him so, no-longer-dead stories tend to cheapen a character, but a plausible never-died-in-the-first-place story is quite a different matter.

Daniel

10/17/2015 06:27:24 am

I'm glad you cut some of the back story because I'm more interested in what's going on in the present then the past.

Zach

10/21/2015 11:44:29 am

Soinds like a great oppurtunity for side novella's or what ever tou called those spinoffs for Travelers Gate
Rock on!

Nikk

10/22/2015 09:59:32 am

I can't wait! Well.. I can wait like I said in my comment on the other blog post so.. I look forward to it! 100 Million %!

I am on the fence about dead characters. Usually dead characters that turn out to not really be dead ruin the story, but I have been reading R.A. Salvatore's latest books, and I like that the 'Companions of the Hall' died but came back as new characters, living new lives, meeting new people, and are now a mixture of the characters they were and the 'new life' characters they are now

10/22/2015 03:59:44 pm

I think a good novel should be as focused as possible. The vast majority should follow the same period of time and a single character point of view.

If the author has a lot of ideas for interesting stories from other time periods or other character POVs, then those can be made available in other novels, novellas, or short stories.

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